The largest privately-funded
U.S. COVID-19 Relief program.

Unfortunately, this program is now completely closed as we have distributed all of the funds available.

Donations to our general U.S. response fund were distributed across the United States to areas with the greatest need; recipients were reached in Puerto Rico, Washington DC, and every state but Wyoming.

We use a mix of prevention, detection, and auditing techniques to manage fraud. These include, for example, defined staff roles, spot checks of data captured in the field, remote GPS coordinate checks, and independent follow-up calls with recipients, among others. We use government-issued IDs, utility bills, and other documents to confirm the recipients’ place of residence.

We managed the full transfer process, end-to-end. We partnered with other organizations to improve our technology and data but our team directly managed each stage of the transfer process.

GiveDirectly is not accepting new donations for Project 100+ as it concluded in October 2021. However, you can support our other U.S. programs here.

Propel builds modern, respectful, and effective technology that helps low-income Americans improve their financial lives. They are the creators of Providers, a free app used by over 2 million Americans across the country to manage their food stamp (SNAP) benefits. A study by Harvard economists showed that using Providers helped stretch food stamps by an average of two days per month. Providers aims to support low-income Americans throughout their financial lives, helping them save money and find ways to earn extra income. Propel is a mission-driven for-profit company, with support from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Flourish, Kevin Durant, and Serena Williams. Propel has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and WIRED Magazine and was named a winner of the NYTimes’ Good Tech Award in 2019.

Stand for Children is a non-profit education advocacy organization focused on ensuring all students receive a high quality, relevant education, especially those whose boundless potential is overlooked and under-tapped because of their skin color, zip code, first language, or disability. Stand makes an impact by:
Partnering with parents to support their children’s education journey and to become strong advocates.
Advocating, mainly at the state and local level, for proven policies and funding focused on helping students reach make-or-break milestones.
Ensuring the changes we champion for reach classrooms and directly support students. To learn more, visit stand.org.